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Merrill doesn't believe in shoes (little_elf_lost) wrote in utr_logs,
@ 2011-05-22 12:28:00

Entry tags:

marian hawke, merlin, merrill

Who: Merrill and Merlin. And maybe Hawke or Isabela later, if they want!
Where: In front of Buckingham Palace
What: Meeting new people and poking Royal Guards
Warnings: Confusingly similar names.

Merrill was lost. More lost than she'd ever been, really. Hawke was coming, though, so she had decided she would stay still. It was better than wandering off the docks again. She poked at the strange device in her hand that was allowing her to communicate with her friends. How strange! Such a tiny device that seemed to work from so far away.

She looked back up at the men in their strange hats. "Are you sure you can't talk to me? I'm not a monster, you know. I'm just lost." She frowned slightly when they wouldn't answer. Even the Qunari would have spoken to her. Probably only to tell her to go away, if she wasn't with Hawke, but at least that was something! She stood on her tiptoes to peek over their shoulders. "That is a very nice home," she remarked. Still, silence.

"Are those hats very itchy?"

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hiddenwarlock
2011-05-22 05:56 pm UTC (link)

Merlin was coming back from school, walking around the long way. He liked walking around the front to see what sort of silly things tourists were doing to try and get the stupid mutes in stupid hats to talk. It was always amusing. What he saw this time was a girl who looked pretty desperate asking for directions. He walked up to her, glaring a bit at the guards.

"Hey, can I help?" He grinned at her, she was dressed strange and he had a distinct feeling she probably had come here through a vortex.

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little_elf_lost
2011-05-22 06:20 pm UTC (link)

Merrill didn't have her tattoos anymore, but she was still fairly obviously Elven. Her ears were pointed with various piercings, and she wore Dalish armor, and her shoes were...well, not very shoe-like. "Oh! Hello," she said, turning to Merlin. "Are you allowed to talk to me, then?"

"I'm sorry, that was rude," she said, a bit embarrassed at her outburst. It was just that she was getting frustrated with the guards. "I'm Merrill. I was just trying to find out where I am so that I can tell my friends."

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	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-22 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Merlin laughed, not finding her rude, but finding it hilarious. "Nah, not rude. I'm Merlin. I am allowed to talk to you. I'm not one of the Queen's Guard. They can be rather frustrating. At least the guard in Camelot had personality." "You're at Buckingham Palace, London, England. Need help telling your friends?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

little_elf_lost
2011-05-22 08:09 pm UTC (link)

"They're always like this?" She smiled. "It's nice to meet you, Merlin. I'm glad you can talk to me! I was starting to feel even more out of place."

"A palace? How exciting." She looked down at the smartphone in her hands. She was starting to figure things out, but she certainly wasn't comfortable with it yet. "Could you?" She held out the device to him. "I'm not really sure what I'm doing, yet."

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hiddenwarlock
2011-05-22 08:19 pm UTC (link)

"Always. You should see some of the things tourists do to try and get them to react."

"It's not quite as exciting as it sounds, but it's a nice place." He took the smartphone and started playing with it a little. He showed her a bit of how to use it. Luckily he had picked up a lot about electronics and all the new stuff since he'd gotten here. "Here, I'll tell them you're at Buckingham Palace. They should be able to find you from there."

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	little_elf_lost 2011-05-22 08:49 pm UTC (link)
	"It must be a very lonely life," she observed, looking at the guards wistfully. "Never to have friends or a family? So sad!" Merrill watched as he showed her how to use the phone. "Oh, good. Thank you." She looked over his shoulder as he typed. "Can you make one of those smiley faces?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-22 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	Merlin laughed, "Oh, when they go home they can probably talk and all that. I guess they aren't always like that." He showed her the smiley face, giving her a real smiley face as he did it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	little_elf_lost 2011-05-22 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, good!" she said, relieved for the men. She giggled when he showed her the emoticon, then tried it herself. "Where are you from, Merlin?" she asked, curious now. "Were you going in there?" she asked, nodding at the palace behind the guards. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-22 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm from Camelot originally, but I've been here in London for a while. I actually live in there, yeah." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kirkwallchamp
2011-05-22 11:28 pm UTC (link)

It seemed like a moment like that was just made for a certain Ferelden refugee to run in on.

Today was a good day for Hawke. Sure, the Portkey had almost made her throw up on the way here, but she was going to get used to it, dammit. Nothing was going to stop her from coming to see Merrill, especially since the last time she'd seen her was when Meredith had decided to try and kill them all.

She muttered a small prayer to the Maker, nicely asking Him to make sure that people didn't realise she was some sort of celebrity, before moving into the crowd.

Seeing Merrill, she rushed up to her and hugged her tightly, really not noticing Merlin in the slightest. "By the Maker, I missed you!"

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little_elf_lost
2011-05-23 06:18 am UTC (link)

"I haven't heard of that. Is it nice?" she asked Merlin. "Really? Do--Oh!" she squeaked, suddenly hugged by the Champion. "Hawke!" she cried, smiling brightly and hugging back. "That was fast!" She'd thought she would be waiting longer than that. "I missed you too!" She had just seen her friend a few hours ago, but it was still a relief, after this ordeal.

"Merlin, this is my friend, Hawke. She's a hero." She smiled up at Hawke. "Hawke, this is Merlin. The guards here are protecting his house!" Merrill hoped they wouldn't end up having to kill them. Usually when people's houses had guards, they had to kill them, it seemed.

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	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-24 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	"It's nice. Not as advanced as this place." Merlin looked up when Merrill's friend came up. He waved and smiled at her. "Hero. That's cool. It's not my house, I just stay there. But yes, they are protecting it, though I think it's more for looks and tradition than for any practical purposes." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kirkwallchamp
2011-05-24 10:47 pm UTC (link)

"Merlin? There are a lot of similar names in this conversation..." yes, Hawke was doing one of the things she did best - stating the blatantly obvious. She could vaguely sense something magical about him, but she was a bit too into her 'eee, Merrill!' mood to care too much. "Nice to meet you, though, thanks for helping her out."

Glancing at the guards, she could swear they looked incredibly like Qunari... or maybe that was just down to the facial expressions. They certainly lacked the tattoos, but that vortex-thing had stolen both hers and Merrill's, so... "They look pretty tough, even if it's only tradition. Who're they protecting?"

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little_elf_lost
2011-05-25 12:25 am UTC (link)

"Hopefully you won't get us confused," Merrill said with a cheerful smile. "I'm the one with the pointy ears!" she added helpfully. She didn't really think Hawke would forget who she was, but sometimes Merrill got to make jokes, too.

"Hopefully not someone bad." She looked over at Merlin. "It isn't someone bad, is it?" Now that Hawke was here, she had no doubt that they could take them if they needed to. "Oh!" She held her phone up for Hawke to see. "Look, Hawke! Merlin showed me how to make a happy smiley face!"

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hiddenwarlock
2011-05-25 12:31 am UTC (link)

Merlin laughed. "Not a problem. I really can't believe these guards won't help a lost girl. Really. Let's you know that chivalry really is dead." He looked at how tough Hawke looked, "Not that you probably care that much for chivalry or anything..."

"Oh, the Queen. They are the Queen's guard. I'm friends with the prince, that's why I'm here. They aren't at all bad people."

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kirkwallchamp
2011-05-25 12:37 am UTC (link)

It was probably telling of where they came from that Hawke was so amused by the little smiley face. "Andraste's sanctified nether regions, that's incredible. How do you do that?"

She shook her head, focusing back on Merlin. She could learn about incredible technological things later, she guessed. "A place with guards where we don't have to hurt anyone? I'm amazed."

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little_elf_lost
2011-05-25 12:53 am UTC (link)

"Well, first you push this button.." She looked back up at Merlin when Hawke did. "Very strange!" she said, looking up at the guard. "But I haven't seen them do anything cruel. I haven't seen them do much of anything."

"Merlin, have you seen them without their hats? Do they have horns? They look so very like the Qunari!" She looked over at Hawke, guessing her friend agreed. "Only.. smaller."

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	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-25 12:57 am UTC (link)
	Merlin looked at the guards and laughed. "I haven't really spent any time with them while they're off duty. I'm pretty sure they're human. Maybe they do have horns, that hats would make a lot more sense." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kirkwallchamp 2011-05-25 01:08 am UTC (link)
	She wasn't alone in thinking that? Oh, thank the Maker. "I said that! But the hats probably make it really itchy... maybe that's why they don't talk much?" It'd explain a lot. They might be too busy trying to ignore the itch to talk, or something like that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	little_elf_lost 2011-05-25 01:19 am UTC (link)
	"Do you have nice gardens, Merlin?" She peeked around the guard. "They look nice." She would like to see them, sometime. But not with Hawke. There were always more important things to do when Hawke was around. "Where are we going now, Hawke?" she asked, just as her stomach growled loudly. "Oh!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-25 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"The gardens are very nice. I could show you sometime if you want." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kirkwallchamp
2011-05-25 01:41 am UTC (link)

"And maybe you can help her find out about the guards and their hats? Isabela would probably try to kill me if I got arrested over that..."

Try as she might, Hawke couldn't help but laugh - how could one little elf have a stomach that loud? Maybe it was a Dalish thing... "I think we'd better get something for you to eat, Merrill. Can't have my favourite elf starving."

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	little_elf_lost 2011-05-25 01:50 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, I'm sure they wouldn't mind if Merlin took them off! They're supposed to be protecting him, after all. They would have to fight themselves!" She giggled. "Oh, I don't know. Fenris had his charm. When he wasn't talking about how we should all be locked away, that is." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hiddenwarlock 2011-05-25 01:55 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, they aren't here to protect me. I couldn't take off there hats, they would be very upset." He grinned a bit at Merrill's growling stomach. "I know a few places nearby you can get some food." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kirkwallchamp
2011-05-25 02:08 am UTC (link)

"Which was most of the time. Still, he fought alongside us all in the end..." Not that he hadn't sulked and complained to her afterwards, but she'd managed to shut him up with another guilt-trip or two.

She might've pouted a little on hearing that news. No amazing adventures of discovering whether they were Qunari or not? Boo. Still, maybe food could make up for it... "If you're not busy, could you show us?"

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